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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1980

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$349M IN PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS

AWARDED IN SEPTEMBER

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THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AWARDED A TOTAL OF 36 CONTRACTS WORTH MORE THAN $349 MILLION IN SEPTEMBER.

ONE OF THE MAJOR CONTRACTS LET WAS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ELEVATED ROAD FROM TAI KOK TSUI TO SHAM SHUI PO AND ITS GROUND LEVEL ROADS.

VALUED AT $78 MILLION, THE CONTRACT WAS FOR A FLYOVER RUNNING ALONG TUNG CHAU STREET FROM YEN CHOW STREET TO TAI KOK TSUI ROAD WHERE IT WILL LINK UP WITH ANOTHER FLYOVER NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

THE WORK FORMS PART OF THE SECOND STAGE OF A HIGH-CAPACITY ELEVATED ROAD SYSTEM LINKING YAU MA TEI WITH LAI CHI KOK.

OF THE 36 CONTRACTS AWARED, 26 WERE ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CENTRAL TENDER BOARD AND THE OTHERS ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PWD TENDER BOARD.

MUI WO HAS NEW SITTING-OUT AREA

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A SITTING-OUT AREA WAS OPENED TODAY AT MU! WO ON A 330-SQUARE-METRE SITE WHICH WAS FORMERLY BARREN LAND OFTEN USED FOR DUMPING LITTER.

A PROMINENT RESIDENT OF MUI WO, MR YEUNG WING-YAU, SAW THAT THE AREA, NEAR THE CENTRE OF THE TOWN, COULD BE BEAUTIFIED TO PROVIDE VILLAGERS WITH SOMEWHERE TO REST AFTER WORK, AND WHERE VISITORS COULD TAKE A BREAK ON THEIR WAY TO PICNIC SPOTS SUCH AS THE BEACH AND THE NEARBY WATERFALL.

A SUGGESTION WAS MADE TO ISLANDS DISTRICT OFFICE AND THE PROJECT WAS APPROVED AT THE END OF LAST YEAR.

THE GROUND HAS SINCE BEEN LEVELLED AND PAVED, TREES AND FLOWERS PLANTED, AND SIX BENCHES INSTALLED.

THE PROJECT COST $30 000 OF WHICH MR YEUNG DONATED $10 000. THE BALANCE WAS PROVIDED BY THE DISTRICT OFFICE. THE SITTING-OUT AREA, WHICH IS NEAR THE CHUNG ME FOOTBALL PITCH, WILL BE MANAGED BY THE NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

OFFICIATING AT TODAY'S CEREMONY WERE MR YEUNG THE ASSISTANT DISTRICT OFFICER ISLANDS, MR MICHAEL ROWSE- AND THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES, MR JAMES WILSON,

MR ROWSE SAID THE SITTING-OUT AREA PROJECT WAS AN EXAMPLE

OF HOW GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL RESIDENTS COULD WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR NEW TERRITORIES PEOPLE. HE SAID MR YEUNG'S CONTRIBUTION WAS DEEPLY APPRECIATED.

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